Jowday Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 2 hours ago, MCFC_4Heatons said: What are the workarounds? Drawing it manually with no tools... the painful time consuming way as the picture suggests. You can skew, though. Thomahawk 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver.
MCFC_4Heatons Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 Yes I know about the shear tool - the lack of a simple perspective tool in Designer like the one in Photoshop is a problem - In Adobe Fireworks its called the 'skew' tool and it combines both shear and perspective functionality. Its a frequently used tool and it should be in Designer, hopefully it won't be too long before its added ... Glennweb and Jowday 2 Quote
Glennweb Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 On 5/6/2019 at 11:21 AM, MCFC_4Heatons said: Affinity Photo has a pespective grid/plane feature This tool is destructive to Curves and converts the output to an Image. I am honestly going to re-install Fireworks again. I really though designer would be the one. Jowday 1 Quote
Glennweb Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 I agree, I have no idea how you work without this tool for vector based illustration??? Jowday and Helianthropy 2 Quote
Guillermo Forte Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 I use a trick, on Affinity Photo place the vector and applied perspective and paste on Designer. Its preserve the modification and I can edit the perspective. mondze 1 Quote
DMullerDesign Posted October 16, 2019 Posted October 16, 2019 Wow. I bought Affinity Photo as I was tired of Adobe's pricing model. Ditching Illustrator too I thought Designer would have this simple function. The ability to freely transform shapes. Another voice for the 'please add this vital feature' choir. Helianthropy, Jowday, toth and 1 other 4 Quote
Thomahawk Posted October 17, 2019 Posted October 17, 2019 One of the most basic tools in any vector drawing application. I just installed version 1.7.3 of Deigner and STILL can not find a tool to distort a group of vector objects! Jowday and mondze 2 Quote
Steps Posted October 19, 2019 Posted October 19, 2019 This would really be nice. Quote Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080 Affinity Photo 1.7.2.471, Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471, Affinity Publisher 1.7.2.471
firstdefence Posted October 20, 2019 Posted October 20, 2019 I think the views count pretty much says it all. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
Martin@Flow Posted November 19, 2019 Posted November 19, 2019 Here another one wasting time on google trying to find how to tilt objects... to me, looks like a basic feature, maybe is ultra complex to integrate in the app, I don't know... Quote
SlavaUX Posted November 19, 2019 Posted November 19, 2019 I'm wondering what the viewpoint is of the developers at Serif. Are you guys working on it? or is it one of the features you put in "won't fix" bucket? toth 1 Quote
nektobit Posted November 20, 2019 Posted November 20, 2019 13 hours ago, SlavaUX said: or is it one of the features you put in "won't fix" bucket? Also very interested in this question toth 1 Quote
maxvolume Posted November 26, 2019 Posted November 26, 2019 +1 for a free transform tool. This is a tool that I need very frequently. I was rather astonished to find this missing from the otherwise excellent designer. Quote
RiotRob Posted December 1, 2019 Posted December 1, 2019 I second the need for a free transform tool. Just bought all the software to get rid of adobe in general, but unfortunately this is holding me back now. I was actually baffled this feature wouldn't be in this software and took it for granted, but after searching the web I stumbled upon this thread. I just registered to give this reply to emphasize the need for this tool. Quote
RiotRob Posted December 1, 2019 Posted December 1, 2019 3 minutes ago, ErrkaPetti said: As someone else wrote in another thread: If Affinity Designer had the same power as Adobe Illustrator, it certainly had a similar pricetag as well... You can do a lot with Affinity Designer, but, with the slimmed team on Affinity compaired to Adobe, implementing of functionality take more effort from the team... Hold in mind that Serif Ltd also throw a lot of working hours on Photo/Designer and Publisher on iPad as well! Sooner or later we will have many needed core functions in Affinity Designer... Be patient... Really, I appreciate this software and use it as much as I can because I like it. I totally understand the difference in size of company, this is just feedback from my experience and my try to give them a grasp of what people (or in this case, I) use. I never regretted buying this software because I'm convinced that the monthly payment model sucks, but this also tops off the income stream of Serif. This one tool would just be a much bigger deal for me than previous thought. Nonetheless, I own and use everything professional on Windows and iPad (which is glorious for retouching with Photo for iPad). So, keep up the good work Serif! (and please don't forget a very pleased customer ) AffinityAppMan and GDPR-415734 2 Quote
Jim (at OnyxRing) Posted December 5, 2019 Posted December 5, 2019 I agree. This feels like a really important feature that is missing. I spent a long time looking for it before stumbling across this thread. Still love Affinity products, all of them, but this feels like a glaring miss for a vector program. megalofauna 1 Quote
Helianthropy Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 Here's another vote for this feature. Almost finished with a project and whoops, can't do free transforms… megalofauna 1 Quote
MCFC_4Heatons Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 Yes, until there's a non destructive free transform, perspective tool no pont in switching from the good old Adobe Fireworks. With free transform and also warp tools there's a very good argument to compoletelt ditch Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Firweworks Jowday 1 Quote
DMullerDesign Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 I've just completed my first bit of illustration with Designer and I really love it, some of the tools and features are BETTER than Illustrator, really nicely implemented. I imagine this feature is actually harder to realise that we expect (I can barely code anything, well, maybe some Arduino stuff). Still, it would be lovely to have the feature added. As for the price tag comment. Hey, I'd happily pay £400, 500 or £600 for well-functioning software, it was Adobe's adoption of the rent-seeking payment model that finally did it for me. Small studios cannot support these kinds of costs. For now, the entire Serif suite has served most of my needs, almost seamlessly, so well done team. Mark Freeman and MEB 1 1 Quote
Buzz1947 Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 Plus one for being half way into a project before realizing such a CORE feature is missing--I was stunned that it is not included. I really wanted to love everything Affinity, because I really hate adobe's pricing structure. But let's be honest with ourselves, without some sort of perspective, shear, free distort feature the program is pretty much unusable (who can afford to be jumping in and out of different programs as a workaround for basic functionality). Sorry, but any talk of affinity designer being an adobe killer dies right here with this issue (I mean wasn't "free distort" in Illustrator 2, and I'm talking the Illustrator 2 that predated the Creative Suite renumbering by at least a decade... hands up if you remember when photoshop and illustrator each had different version numbers...) Rainer Smetan and J.W. HEP GmbH 2 Quote
eobet Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 A new version is about to get released. Anyone know if perspective distort for Designer will be included in it? Quote
AdrianB Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 7 minutes ago, eobet said: A new version is about to get released. Anyone know if perspective distort for Designer will be included in it? The betas of Designer 1.8 has been public for quite some time and I haven't heard anything about this being fixed there, only the other major issue (expanding strokes), you can read detailed release notes here. Quote
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